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October 2010 Director's Report
New Projects
Network Pattern Recognition Project
ECAI has received a new grant of nearly $300,000 from the National Science Foundation for “Network Pattern Recognition Project.” Lewis Lancaster is the Principal Investigator and will work closely with Michael Buckland, Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie-Mellon), Tina Eliassi-Rad (Rutgers) and Timothy Tangherlini (UCLA). The purpose of the project is to explore the feasibility of using network analysis and visual analysis techniques developed for very large science databases for very large humanities data sets. For details see http://ecai.org/nsf2010



Early California Cultural Atlas
The Early California Cultural Atlas project led by Steven Hackel, UC Riverside with Jeanette Zerneke, ECAI UCB has been awarded a Level II NEH Start-up Grant. Jeanette will be presenting at the Project Directors Meeting on September 28, 2010. The meeting is open to the public and will be filmed for later viewing on the NEH website. An introduction to the project can be seen at: http://ecai.org/nehecca/


Future Meetings
In keeping with the current approach of ECAI to focus on workshops rather than conferences, we have planned and completed a number of events:
-- Remote Sensing Workshop in India (August, 2009). The proceedings are now available:
-- New Cultural Atlases Workshop at Fudan University, Shanghai (June 2010). This is being followed up by teams working on “Atlas of Martime Buddhism”, “Atlas of Islam in China”, “Atlas of Himalayan Buddhist sites.”)
-- ECAI will be meeting with Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology and the Society for Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM) October 19-23 at the COEX Center, Seoul, Korea. The theme of the conference will be exploring the use of Virtual Systems with heritage and cultural data. This will be the site for another ECAI workshop dealing with pattern recognition and 3-D displays as well as Transdisciplinary methodology. For more on this event: 
http://ecai.org/activities/2010VSMM/vsmm2010.html
-- Later in the year, we will again meet with Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) at their 2010 conference being held jointly with City University of Hong Kong at the City University Nov 30 – Dec 3. One of the highlights of the meeting will be the demonstration of ECAI projects in the new immersive, 3-D theatres as the laboratory in the Science Park in Hong Kong under the direction of the Centre of Creative Media, ALIVE, and the Department of Chinese Translations and Linguistics of City University of Hong Kong.
The PNC 2010 website and related information will be announced soon.
See more on this event: http://ecai.org/activities/2010PNC/pnc2010.html


Directors Activities
The Director participated in the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics workshop being held August 14-27 at UCLA under the guidance of Professor Tim Tangherlini.
Lectures have included presentations at the Digital Humanities 2010 meeting at King’s College, London; Korea-Thai Expo, Gyeongju; Nanzenji-Korea Conference on the 1000th Anniversary of Printing Buddhist Canonic Texts, Seoul.


Visitors
Charles van den Heuvel works in the Virtual Knowledge Studio for Humanities and Social Sciences in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam. He is a visiting Regents' Lecturer in the School of Information in Fall 2010.
Dr Tuuka Ruotsalo, a Fulbright Scholar in the School of Information for the current academic year, has extensive experience in the use of digital techniques in cultural heritage institutions. His recent experience includes working on national projects in Finland, including Finnish CultureSampo, Helsinki University of Technolog,(TKK) and FinnONTO a project using ontologies and semantic knowledge management technologies to overcome interoperability and information access problems.


Past ECAI Directors’ Reports
Past ECAI Directors’ Reports are available at http://ecai.org/about/directorsRpts.html


Magyarországról az ECAI (Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative) kezdeményezéséhez HUNAGI közvetítéssel csatlakozott két tagszervezetének három szakembere is az ELTE Térképtudományi és Geoinformatikai Tanszékéről illetve a Nyugat-Magyarországi Egyetem Geoinformatikai Karáról.
A tudományterület a térinformatika kultúrális, történettudományi alkalmazása szempontból kimagasló jelentőségű.